The Last Mistress A novel by Soaad Soliman Translated from Arabic by Sharkawy Hafez Published by Kinaya Books 2023 Zeina, Rami’s wife, who died suddenly without any introduction, discovers that he was living a life that she did not know about her husband until after his death through mobile messages and email messages in addition to paper letters telling the story of her husband’s love for a visual artist, coinciding with her life with Rami, with whom she gave birth to five children. She discovers that this man she never knew and never imagined had this dual personality. It is not betrayal that Zeina suffers from, but rather taking revenge on her dead husband is no longer possible. How could you not live this life with him? How did you not discover the story of his love for the visual artist’s gift? The novel is based on the idea of revealing the hidden feelings of all the heroes through letters, which represent the basic technique in the novel and gradually reveal the nature and life of the characters, their problems, their psychological and human pain, and the losses of each character due to duality and attachment to customs and traditions, which killed love in them and made them miserable in the end.